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Roswell George Mills (1896 - 1966) was a Canadian journalist, poet and magazine publisher. A friend and colleague of poet Elsa Gidlow,〔Elsa Gidlow, ''Elsa, I Come with My Songs''. Booklegger Publishing, 1986. ISBN 0912932120.〕 he is the first gay man in Canadian history whose life and sexual orientation is attested through biographical literature rather than court records.〔("Elsa Gidlow’s Circle – Roswell George Mills" ). ''The Drummer's Revenge'', June 1, 2010.〕 Born in Buffalo, New York, on July 4, 1896,〔Faig, Ken. (July 2006). "(Lavender Ajays of the Red-Scare Period: 1917–1920 )". ''The Fossil''. 102 (4), 5–17.〕 Mills moved to Montreal, Quebec, in childhood with his family.〔 In early adulthood Mills worked as a journalist for the ''Montreal Star'', where his byline appeared on the financial pages and as a theatre and opera critic.〔 He also wrote a women's column under the pseudonym "Jessie Roberts".〔 He and Gidlow met at a poetry club. According to Gidlow, Mills was open about his sexuality and considered it a personal crusade to make people "understand that it was beautiful, not evil, to love others of one's own sex and make love with them."〔 Between 1918 and 1920 Mills and Gidlow collaborated on the underground magazine ''Les Mouches Fantastiques'', Canada's first known LGBT publication. Mills published several poems in the magazine.〔 An Episcopalian priest from South Dakota, Graeme Davis, took leave from his church posting and moved to Montreal to become Mills' lover after discovering the magazine.〔 Mills also gave piano lessons.〔Advertisement on page 13. ''Canadian Jewish Chronicle'', March 16, 1920.〕 Mills followed Gidlow in the early 1920s to New York City, where he took a job in the financial section of the ''Oil, Paint, and Drug Reporter''.〔 He soon ended his relationship with Davis and moved in with Khagendrenath Ghose, an immigrant from India.〔 He subsequently lost contact with Gidlow for a number of years, although they met again in Paris in 1928, where Mills was living with a German architecture student named Jurgen.〔 Mills, Gidlow and Jurgen all travelled to Berlin in 1929, discovering the city's burgeoning gay subculture and touring Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sex Research.〔 Gidlow later moved back to the United States while Mills remained in Europe, although the two continued to correspond.〔 By 1943, Mills was again living in New York City and working for ''The Brooklyn Eagle''.〔 By 1961 he was living in Miami, Florida, where he died on May 5, 1966.〔 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roswell George Mills」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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